It would be good to have the relevant threads together, could be a sub-forum of "The Way of the Bodhisattva". Even better would be to have a new area called "Nalanda University" which could have sub-forums for Madhyamaka, Pramana, Yogachara, Sanskrit and Tibetan translation issues, etc.

Thoroughly tame your own mind.This is (possibly) the teaching of Buddha.

Posts containing personal opinions and conjecture, points of view arrived at from meditative experiences, conversations with devas/gods or based solely on a teacher's saying are all regarded as off-topic

So opinions that are not personal, yet not based on a guru's teachings, yet again, are shallow, are going to produce some really nifty "in-depth discussions".

Then I think that by so naming it, it is already giving a preference and slant as to what constitutes "academic discussion". If one actually tried this in academic Buddhist studies, it would simply not pass muster. For example, does this somehow exclude the climate of discussion that occurred in Chang'an over the centuries? Or Nara?

Huifeng wrote:Then I think that by so naming it, it is already giving a preference and slant as to what constitutes "academic discussion". If one actually tried this in academic Buddhist studies, it would simply not pass muster. For example, does this somehow exclude the climate of discussion that occurred in Chang'an over the centuries? Or Nara?

oh fer crissakes. Buddhism is originally an Indian phenomena, and Nalanda is simply the most famous center of Buddhist academic study from the "golden age" But if people's feelings are hurt and they have no sense of fun, then sure, change it to "non-sectarian politically correct Buddhist Academic Forum"

Thoroughly tame your own mind.This is (possibly) the teaching of Buddha.